# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-olson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:35:48.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-olson"
name: "Frank Olson"
slug: "frank-olson"
description: "Frank Rudolph Emmanuel Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and an employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) who worked at Camp Detrick in Maryland. At a meeting in rural Maryland, he was covertly dosed with LSD by his colleague \nSidney Gottlieb and, nine days later, plunged to his death from the window of the Hotel Statler in New York. The U.S. government first described his death as a suicide, and then as misadventure, while others allege murder. The Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA in 1975 acknowledged their having conducted covert drug studies on fellow agents. Olson's death is one of the most mysterious outcomes of the CIA mind control project MKUltra."
tagline: "American chemist (1910-1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Olsen_(1910-1953).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-07-17"
deathDate: "1953-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.71
  momentum:             1.201882352941177
  historical:           10.028472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3564571/"
    handle:    "nm3564571"
sources:
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    title: "Frank Olson"
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    title: "فرانک اولسن"
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    title: "Frank Olson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson"
    title: "Frank Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson"
    title: "Frank Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانک اولسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson"
    title: "Frank Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson"
    title: "Frank Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson"
    title: "Frank Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump